Obamacare’s Pro-Abortion HHS Mandate Takes Effect

Despite one positive ruling in a case allowing a company to be exempted from the Obamacare HHS mandate, the pro-abortion mandate that pro-life groups strenuously oppose will take effect today.
The mandate adversely affects three categories of businesses and organizations in different ways and the Catholic Association spells them out: 1.  For-profit private employers do not qualify for the one-year safe harbor and are thus completely unprotected as of August 1.
2.  Some employers do not yet know if they qualify for the safe harbor. They may only object to some but not all of the services – for example, the evangelical college Wheaton, which has also filed suit against the Administration, objects to abortion-causing drugs but not contraception. 
3.  Objecting employers with a religious affiliation are essentially left with one year to scramble.
Matt Smith, president of Catholic Advocate, also condemned the start of the HHS mandate implementation.  “August 1st will be remembered as the day our most cherished liberty was thrown in a government dumpster and hauled away,” he told LifeNews. “A day when family owned small businesses were forced to abandon their religious beliefs to provide products and services for free. And if they don’t, they will be taxed and fined at a time when job creators are struggling with enough costs and bureaucratic red-tape at every level of government just to stay in business.”
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